Space

NOTE EDITORE

Space is the first accessible text which provides a comprehensive examination of approaches that have crossed between such diverse fields as philosophy, physics, architecture, sociology, anthropology, and geography. The text examines the influence of geometry, arithmetic, natural philosophy, empiricism, and positivism to the development of spatial thinking, as well as focusing on the contributions of phenomenologists, existentialists, psychologists, Marxists, and post-structuralists to how we occupy, live, structure, and perform spaces and practices of spacing. The book emphasises the multiple and partial construction of spaces through the embodied practices of diverse subjects, highlighting the contributions of feminists, queer theorists, anthropologists, sociologists, and post-colonial scholars to academic debates. In contrast to contemporary studies which draw a clear line between scientific and particularly quantitative approaches to space and spatiality and more ‘lived’ human enactments and performances, this book highlights the continual influence of different mathematical and philosophical understandings of space and spatiality on everyday western spatial imaginations and registers in the twenty-first century. Space is possibly the key concept underpinning research in geography, as well as being of central importance to scholars and practitioners working across the arts, humanities, social sciences, and physical sciences.

SOMMARIO

1. Introduction2. Genealogies of Western Spatial Thinking3. Geometric and Arithmetic Spaces4. Psy-Spaces and Spatialities5. Phenomenological and Existential Spatialities6. Different Spatialities / Spaces of Difference7. Production, Structuring and the Spatialities of Power8. Representing, Practising, Spacing9. ConclusionsAddendum: COVID-19 Spaces and Spatialities in the UK

AUTORE

Peter Merriman is Professor of Human Geography at Aberystwyth University in Wales. He has authored or edited eight books, including Mobility and the Humanities (2019), Space – Critical Concepts in Geography (4 volumes)(2016), and Mobility, Space and Culture (2012).

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780415667296
• Collana: Key Ideas in Geography
• Dimensioni: 8.5 x 5.5 in Ø 1.28 lb
• Formato: Brossura
• Illustration Notes: 10 b/w images and 10 halftones
• Pagine Arabe: 366
• Pagine Romane: xiv